Actual sticker sighting #2 - WBCL

I saw this sticker on a blue minivan going south on I-75 near Middletown, Ohio. WBCL is a Contemporary Christian station licensed to Fort Wayne, Indiana. WBCL is owned by Taylor University and simulcasts on three repeaters and two translators in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla / WGRQ

Nikola Tesla was born on this date in 1856. He and Guglielmo Marconi are often both credited with discovering radio but in 1943 the United States Supreme Court reinstated one of his patents effectively crediting Tesla as the actual inventor.

Here's son #2 on Tesla's lap in Niagara Falls, New York wearing a vintage 97 Rock t-shirt.

WGRQ/WGR-FM/WGRF has been a Rock station in Buffalo, New York since 1975 (except for a three year period in the mid-1980s.) They are also the flagship station for the Buffalo Bills Radio Network.
GO BILLS!!!

Cow Appreciation Day

Cow Appreciation Day is listed variously as July 10th, 15th or 25th. Today's C.A.D. seems to be spearheaded by the Chick-fil-A chain of chicken restaurants who are giving out free meals to anyone who enters any of their establishments dressed like a cow.

WCOW is a Country music station licensed to Sparta, Wisconsin. For many years they simulcast on their AM sister station which also had the WCOW calls (it's now WKLJ, an ESPN Radio affiliate.)

Cows are delicious. Appreciate them by eating their yummy bits today.

WMTT

WMTT is a Classic Rock station in Elmira/Corning, New York and licensed to Tioga, Pennsylvania. Anybody know what the meaning (if any) of "The Met" is?

Aliens Captured!

On this date back in 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field said they had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a nearby ranch. Later that day a general at the base stated that the debris was actually from a weather balloon and not a flying saucer. The aliens and their spacecraft were supposedly then flown to Hangar 18 at Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) right here in Dayton, Ohio. The Roswell incident has kept 60 years of skeptics and conspiracy theorists busy with ideas of a massive cover-up.

KSFX is a Classic Hits station licensed to Roswell, New Mexico.

KVCI

KVCI was a Country music station licensed to Canton, Texas. In 2007 they became KRDH, playing a mixture of Classic Country with current artists that have a more traditional sound like George Strait and Randy Travis.

WBNQ

WBNQ (We're Bloomington Normal Quality) is a Contemporary Hit Music station licensed to Bloomington, Illinois. They began as an Oldies station in the 1970s using the automated Draper-Blore Olde Golde format and later the Drake-Chenault Solid Gold and XT-40 formats. They switched to CHR in the early 80s and remain so today.

WQCK

Yesterday we spent about 5 hours hiking various trails in and around Natural Bridge State Park in Kentucky. The trail we took leading to Natural Bridge gave us a bit of a workout because it was so humid. Before we knew it we were standing on a wide, flat rock that I didn't even realize was the Natural Bridge itself. You can't really appreciate it until you take another short hike and look at it from the other side.

92.7 The Bridge was a Contemporary Christian station from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They originally went on the air in 1981 playing Rock but switched to Country two years later. In 1986 they flipped to Contemporary Christian and in 2005 became one of over 400 K-Love simulcasters retaining their CCM format and switching calls to WBKL. WQCK was licensed to Clinton, Louisiana.

Happy 4th of July!

WWTC is a conservative Talk station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota and is one of that city's oldest, dating back to 1925. In the 1990s WWTC had a format aimed at children with a sticker that can be seen here.

Red River Radio Network

Took a nice, relaxing canoe trip down the Red River in eastern Kentucky today. We used a hybrid canoe/kayak with very comfortable lowbacked seats. Along the way we passed a gigantic, house-sized boulder that people were jumping off and into the river. I didn't bring my camera for fear that I'd lose it or get it wet if we tipped the boat but that never happened. In fact, I ended up pushing the canoe more than once after we bottomed out in the shallow river.

The Red River Radio Network is member supported and affiliated with National Public Radio. It consists of four stations and one translator:
KDAQ 89.9 FM - Shreveport, Lousiana
KLSA 90.7 FM - Alexandria, Louisiana
KBSA 90.9 FM - El Dorado, Arkansas
KLDN 88.9 FM - Lufkin, Texas
and
K214CE 90.7 FM - Grambling, Louisiana

There are multiple Red Rivers in the United States and the RRRN is referring to the one that forms the border between Texas and Oklahoma, flows briefly into Arkansas and then into Louisiana before heading into the Mississippi River.

Get Your Kicks

There are dozens of stations out there using "Kicks" "Kix" and "Kixx" as their branding, almost every one of them with a Country format. It might have something to do with the fact that "kick" is a four letter word starting with K which fits the parameters for call letters west of the Mississippi. Plus you can play with different call letter spellings to make it look and sound like "kicks" as evidenced by the first two stickers. The station that actually has KICK as its calls is a Country station (natch) from Palmyra, Missouri. Sadly, I don't have a decal from them.

KHKX - Odessa, Texas circa 2001.

KYYX - Minot, North Dakota.

WKWS - Charleston, West Virginia. They are now known as "96.1 The Wolf," still with a Country format but with some Southern Rock mixed in.

It's Canada Day, eh!

Canada Day marks the July 1st, 1867 joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick and the Province of Canada (which was later divided into Ontario and Quebec.) This day also allows idiot Americans to add "eh" to the end of everything they say in order to help fulfill a secret wish that they were actually Canadian (or maybe that's just me.)

CBC Radio is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio division which operates three main networks. CBC Radio One is primarily news and information. CBC Radio 2 is music, arts and culture programming while CBC Radio 3 runs an Indie Rock format. There are also three French language divisions which run roughly the same type of programming as their English counterparts. Première Chaîne is news and information. Espace musique broadcasts music, arts and culture and Bande à part carries youth-oriented music programming.

While living in Celina, Ohio I managed to listen to the "CBC Stereo" (now CBC Radio 2) affiliate from Windsor, Ontario most Friday nights for "Brave New Waves." BNW exposed me to all kinds of great alternative music in the mid 80s and heavily influenced my musical tastes. It was quite a feat to pick up this FM station (look on a map) but I had a huge rooftop FM antenna at the time. If only I had airchecked some of those shows....

WFDD

WFDD (Wake Forest Demon Deacons) grew out of WAKE, a 5-watt pirate station operated by Wake Forest University students around 1946. By the end of the decade they had become fully licensed but had to change calls to WFDD because WAKE was already taken. In 1971 WFDD became a charter member of National Public Radio and relies on NPR for much of its programming today. They also broadcast Jazz and Classical music along with BBC News. 88.5 FM WFDD is licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

WSHP

WSHP (WrocketSHiP) is a Classic Rock station from Lafayette, Indiana and licensed to Attica, IN. Prior to this, "The Rocket" was a Modern Rock station as WGBD. Bob & Tom are a syndicated morning show heard on about 140 affiliates nationwide.

Sunday Sticker - KELP

AM 1590 KELP is a Christian Teaching station licensed to (K) El Paso, Texas.

Bonus! Guest Contributor Post - KZOK

My buddy Dan Sys in Vancouver was kind enough to send one of his many radio stickers along with a bit of station information. Take it away Dan...

Z Rock 1590 is KZOK Seattle from 1990. At that time they split away from a KZOK 102.5 simulcast and carried the syndicated Z-Rock programming from Dallas. That lasted a few years until they became KPOZ with a "positive" Christian format. Today they are KLFE (K-LIFE) with a mixture of Russian programming and Christian Talk. Call letters and formats before the KZOK days included KQUL (Oldies), KJET (Alternative), KUUU (Oldies), KSND (Top 40), KETO (MoR) and originally signing on as KTIX back in the late 50's.

Greg here again. I remember Z Rock very well from listening to Cincinnati's affiliate which came in strong in Dayton. One of my favorite bits was when they played songs backwards or sped up and you had to guess what it was. It was the glory days of hair metal and these guys played it all. By the way, "Hey Stoopid" refers to the album by that name that Alice Cooper released in 1991.
Thanks Dan!

Dart on Map - WOXD

This time the random dart landed on Route 7 just north of Abbeville, Mississippi.

WOXD is a Classic Hits station focusing on Rock and Soul from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Bullseye 95.5 is licensed to Oxford, Mississippi, just south of Abbeville.

Obligatory Michael Jackson Post

The King of Pop died yesterday. It's one of those major, unexpected deaths that you remember where you were when you found out. Like many people, I wasn't a huge Jackson fan but could appreciate his obviously immense talent even as he descended into freakish and possibly illegal behavior. Unfortunately, that talent seemed to fade about as fast as his skin color over the years. For the past day I've been hearing MJ songs played on the radio that I haven't heard in years ("State of Shock" anybody? I think I'm the only one who likes this song) and watching him do the still-amazing Moonwalk on YouTube. So sad.

I don't have any directly King of Pop-related radio stickers so these will have to do....

Sacramento, California's KPOP FM had a variety of formats over the years including Middle-of-the-Road, Soul, Modern Rock and Top-40. Not sure when this sticker is from but I have a feeling it's from their MOR days.

KPOP AM was an Adult Standards station from San Diego, California. AM 1360 now has a Sports Talk format with the awesome call letters KLSD.

2BW

Braidwood Community Radio was?/is? located in Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia. 2BW doesn't appear to exist anymore or at least have any kind of web presence. The above sticker is circa 2004.

WLLH

WLLH (W Lowell Lawrence Haverhill) has been on the air since 1934, originally at 1370 AM and now 1400 AM.
In the 1940s Ed McMahon began his broadcasting career with a job at WLLH. He was best known as Johnny Carson's announcer and sidekick on the Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. McMahon passed away yesterday at age 86.
In 2005 the station became an ESPN Radio affiliate. WLLH is licensed to Lowell, Massachusetts.